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中考真题模拟分享四 （6.03） Day 4 一．阅读理解。 Passage1(上城区2016年二模C) Agreatnumber ofpeople in theworldhavenever seen snow.Others seemoreofit than they want to . Hail ismuch morecommon;it happens even in deserts. Hail is a small round ball of alternating layers(交互层）of snow and clear ice.It forms inside large dark cloudsthat you can seebeforeor during a storm.Therearetwoideasabouthowhailstonesfrom. One idea shows that hail forms when drops of water freeze in the upper air.As they fall,they collect more drops of water.They also collect snow.The ice and snow build up in layers.If you cut a hailstone,you can seethesealternating layers. The other idea says that hail starts as a raindrop .The wind carries it higher into the atmosphere(大气层），where it gets covered by snow .It becomes heavy and begins to fall.As it falls,it gets a layer of water,which freezes,Then the wind carries it back up to the snow area,and it gets another layer of snow.This can happen a number of times.Finally the hailstone is too heavy to travel on thewind,and it fallstotheground. Only a thunderstorm(暴风雨）,a storm with loud noises and lighting can produce hail,but very few ofthem do.Perhapsonly onein 400thunderstormscreatehailstones. A hailstone is usually less than eight centimeters in diameter.However,hailstones can be much bigger than that.Sometimesthey are asbig asbaseballs.The largest hailstone which people have ever recordedweighed over 680gramsandhad adiameter ofthirteen centimeters. Hail can cause the death of plants,especially since hail usually appears in the middle of summer ,when the plants are partly grown.If the crops are destroyed,it is too late to plant more,and the farmer has lost everything.In one terrible hailstorm in 1923 in Rosov,in UKraine,twenty-three 中考真题模拟分享 1 peopleandmany farm animalswerekilled. 1.Which o